He'd get this over with before his father could catch him being what?

But your father caught him, and that was it.

As she started to turn away, her father caught her hand.

Their father, who had run out of the house, caught them.

You know the story about the boy whose father catches him smoking for the first time?

If her father caught her now, it wouldn't matter that they were on the street.

But his father caught hold of him by the arm.

"Best the little fool does not let his father catch him playing that trick."

I slipped out about once a week for nearly three months before my father caught me.

Had my father caught me doing nothing, I should not have sat very comfortably.